Trio Isimsiz

Sat 7 Apr,
Stamford Ballroommusic

Trio Isimsiz was formed in 2009. They have received various accolades including most recently First Prize and the Audience Prize at the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition 2015 and Second Prize at the 2017 International Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna.

Trio Isimsiz was formed in 2009. They have received various accolades including most recently First Prize and the Audience Prize at the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition 2015 and Second Prize at the 2017 International Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna.

Their Stamford concert brings three interesting compositions for Piano Trio. Schubert’s one-movement Sonatensatz was written when he was just 15 in the August of 1812, just after he had been dismissed from the choir of the Imperial Chapel in Vienna after his voice broke.

Beethoven’s pair of piano trios numbered Op. 70 was written four years earlier while spending the summer in Heiligenstadt. They were written immediately after the Sixth Symphony, and mark a return to the intimacy of chamber music which he had set aside between 1804 and 1808, while he wrestled with the ground-breaking Fifth Symphony, and composed wonders such as the Fourth Piano Concerto.

Brahms’ first piano trio was first written when Brahms was turning 21. He revised it in 1889 so, although he wrote two further piano trios (Opp. 87 and 101), Op. 8 is simultaneously Brahms’ first and last compositions for Piano Trio!